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1776 I " I 1913 

CITY OF NEW YORK 

WILLIAM J. GAYNOR, Mayor 



HELD AT THE 

C ITY HALL 

IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK 

JULY THE FOURTH 
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN 

At 10 o'clock, A. M. 

TO COMMEMORATE THE 

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 

SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 

JULY THE FOURTH, SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX 



BY THE FOURTH OF JULY COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 

JOINTLY WITH THE 

AMERICAN SCENIC AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY 

DR. GEORGE F. KUNZ, President ^*jfe- 



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HON. WILLIAM J. GAYNOR 
Mayor of the City of New York, Presiding 



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Music ........ Frank Stretz's Military Band 

Invocation ....... Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, D.D. 

Rector of the Church of the Ascension 

"America" .... Girls of the De Witt Clinton High School 
Address Hon. Herman Ridder 

Commissioner of Charities 

" My Old Kentucky Home " . . . . Frank Stretz's Military Band 
Address Hon. William ]. Gaynor 

Mayor of the City of New York 

Honorary President Safe and Sane Fourth of July Celebration 

" Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" . De Witt Clinton High School Girls 

David T. Shaw 

Address Dr. J. Soyeda 

Of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Japan, 
and the American Japanese Society 

Address ..... Communication from Captain Raold Amundsen 

Discoverer of the South Pole 

B'.UE AND THE Gray" .... Frank Stretz's Military Band 
^ARATiON OF INDEPENDENCE Benedict J. Greenhut 

Vice-President of the Safe and Sane Fourth of July 
Celebration Committee 

' Hail Columbia " De Witt Clinton High School Girls 

Professor Phylla 
Words by N. Clifford Page 

Address ..... Special Message from His Excellency, Dr. Lauro Miiller 

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Brazil 

and remarks by Hon. John Barrett 

Director-General of the Pan-American L^nion 

" American Fantaisie" Frank Stretz's Military Band 

ADDRi - \. ...■•■ ■ Hon. George McAneny 

President of the Borough of Manhattan 

'< Battle Hymn Sf the Republic " . . De Witt Clinton Hig' '^,-hoo! Girls 

\ Julia Ward y owe 

Address . '. . . . • ' • • Hon. William Frendergasi 

' Comptroller of the City of New York 

"Star Spangled B\nner" .... Frank Stretz's Military Band 



Through the courtesy of Lorillard Spencer, Commissioner of Boy Scouts of America 

for Neyv York, one hundred Boy Scouts, in charge of 

Field Scout Master A. G. Clarke, will act as gruards and attendants. 

Ajuu-a^B'i}" 




Explanation of Map 
The Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental 
Aiuiy in New York, in the presence of Washington, on the Com- 
mon, called the Fields, later City Hall Park, July 9, 1776. Upon 
this Common the Sons of Liberty had for ten years erected their 
tiherij Poles. Here Alexander Hamilton trained his Artillery 
' r...,any in 1776. The old Common was substantially identical 
. ilie triangle bounded by Broadway, Chambers Street and 
'; Row. The north-east corner was gradually worn off until, 
w.iii t'.e opening of Centre Street, the Park was bounded by 
Broad ay. Chambers Street, Centre Street and Park Row- It 
mained until 1867, when the Post Office site was sold. 
::e of ancient burying ground for negroes, paupers and 
.Is and for American patriots under British rule during the 
tion. 2. New Hall of Records. 3. Site of barrier gate 
ck-house in angle of second City Wall of palisades erected 
(Marschalk's survey, 1755). 4-7. Large broken outline. 
Upper Barracks, 1757-1790 5. Small broken outline, plan 
of sec .nd almshouse, 1797-1857. There were additional Barracks 
between sites 5 and 16 during the Revolution. 6. Solid outline, 
present Countv Court-house, begun 1861. 7. Present City 
Court-house, erected 1852. 8. Site of Rotunda, 1818-1870. 9 
Site f'f dispensary and soup-house, 1817 and later ; also of fire 
engiu ■ house, removed 1906. 10-10. New Municipal Building. 
11. vSi"- of temporary fire engine house built 18^9. 12. Subway 
kioftki 13. Approximate site of old State Arsenal ; later, Free 
Schoo',, No. 1, circa 1809. 14. Fortifications built by Americans 
in 1776 (Hills' survey, 1782-5). 15. Postal Telegraph Building, 
253 Broadway, site of Montagnie's Tavern, headquarters of Sons 
of Liberty, 1770 and earlier. 16. Plan of Bridewell, 1775-1838 



thus 



in 17-1 
site o 



(Mangin's survey, 1804) ; a Revolutionary prison, i''. City Hall, 
begun 1803 : site of first Almshouse, 1736-1797. 18. Site of Gaol, 
the " Martyrs' Prison " of the Revolution, later Hall of Records, 
1757-1903 (Mangin's survey). 19. Site of Powder .'Vlagazine 
(Marschalk's survey, 1755, and Montresor's survey, 17.'-^). 20. 
New York World Building. 21. Nathan Hale Statue (tempo- 
rarily moved). 22. Approximate site of the first buildingyp° 
the Common, early 18th century. 23. Fountain built 1871. V^- 
Statue of Benjamin Franklin in Printing House Square. ZsP- 
New ^'ork Sun Building, built 1811, first permanent Tamman; 
Hall. 26. Approximate site of grave of Jacob Leisler as located 
on Grim's recollection map, but may have been a little farther 
north. 27. New York Tribune Building; statue of Horace Greeley 
in vestibule. 28. AmericHn Tract Society Building; site of Mart- 
ling's Tavern ; rendezvous of Sons of Liberty and " Martling's 
Men;" Wigwam of Tammany Society, 1798.' 29. Building for- 
merly occupied by New \'ork Times. 30. Site of Brick Presby- 
terian Church built 1768. 31. Site of Croton Water Fountain in 
what was once part of City Hall Park ; triangle is now occupied 
by United States Post Office and Court-house. 32. Astor House, 
built 1834-38 ; site of Drovers' Inn :uul other early hostelries. 
33. Nos. 21, 23, 25 Park Row, site •< .successive Park Theatres, 
1798-1848, frontage of 78 feet on I'ark Row and 85 feet on Theatre 
Alley. Part of this site (No. 21 Park Row) is now occupied by the 
Park Row Building. 34. Saint Paul Building ; southern half of 
this property is site of Spring Garden House. On this propert\ 
stood Bicker's Tavern, bought by Sons of Liberty after they left 
Montagnie's and named Hampden Hall L-^ter site of Scudder's 
Museum and Barnum'sMuseimi. 35. Saint Paul's Chapel, begu;. 
in 1764. 36. Woolworth Building, tallest building in th'- ■ -jrhi 



Q^fllrfrs 0f tit? IFnurtl) nf iuly (Eommttt?? 

HERMAN RIDDER, President BENEDICT J. GREENHUT, Vice-President 

ISAAC N. SELIGMAN, Treasurer Dr. EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, Secretary 

City Rail Celebration Committee 

Chairman, DR. GEORGE F. KUNZ Vice-Chairman, COL. HENRY W. SACKETT 

Secretary, WILLIAM A. JOHNSTON 
Musical Director, ARTHUR V. FARWELL 
Col. Ki ^ne K. Austin Hon. Frank L. Dowling Hon. George MoAneny 

x<eeina] T'. Bolton Samuel W. Fairchild Hon. John Purroy Mitchel 

-sicholasM. Butler, LL.D., Ph.D. Arthur Farwell Hon. Courtlandt Nicoll 

Hun. John D. Crimmins John H. Finley, Ph.D., LL.D. Han. Eugene A. Philbin 

Alexander Gumming Prof. Henry T. Fleck Miss Mary J. Pierson 

Hon. Henry H. Curran Hon. Ralph Folks Victor Ridder 

Hon. Robert W. de Forest Col. Asa Bird Gardiner Dr. Frank Rix 

Joseph L. Delafield Samuel V. Hoffman Lindsay Russell 

William C. Demorest Chester S. Lord, LL.D. Mrs. William Cummings Story 

Col. John W. Vrooman Col. W. D'H. Washington 

Committee of the Hmcrican Scenic and Ristoric preservation Society 

in Charge of the City Rail Celebration 

George F. Kunz, Ph. D. So. D. Reginald Pelham Bolton 

Col. Henry W. Saczett Edward Hagaman Hall, L. H. D. 

Henry M. Leipziger, Ph.D., LL.D. Edward L. Partridge, M. D. 

Officers of Committees 

Athletics 

Chairmau, James E. Sullivan Vice-Chairman, George D. Mathews 

Secretar)', Daniel J. Ferris 

Armories Chairman, Major-General John F. 0'Ry.\n 

Brooklyn Borough 

Chairtnan. Hon. Alfred E. Steers Secretary, John B. Creighton 

Bronx Borough 

Chairman, Hon. James L. Wells Secretary, W. F. Olpp 

Illuminations 

Chairman, William A. Johnston Vice-Chairman, C. W. Price 

Manhattan Borough 

Chairmau, Louis A. Ames Secretary, Alfred J. Talley 

Queens Borough 

Chairman, Louis Windmuller 
Vice-Chairman, ist Ward, Dr. J. J. Kindred Vice-Chairman, 4th Ward, Frank E. Harth 
2d " P. V. Vandevelde " 5th " John C. Judge 

3d " C. G. M. Thomas Secretary, Walter I. Willis 

Richmond Borough 

Chairman, Cornelius G. Kolff 
Vice-Chairmen, Charles E. Griffith and Charles J. McCormack 
Secretary, Louis W. Kaufmann 

School Celebrations 

Chairmau, William H. Maxwell, Ph.D. , LL.D. Vice-Chairman, Edward W. Stitt, Ph.D. 



A Grand Patriotic Song Rally and Electical Illumination 
at the City Hall in the Evening from 7.45 to 10 o'clock 

JVIusic Committee 

Chairman ..... Prof. Henry T. Fleck 

Vice-Chaikman for Brooklyn Borough . Gustav Graef 

Vice-Chairmax for Richmond Borough . Miss Elizabeth B. Curtis 

Vice-Chairman for Queens Borough . . . E. C. Hunt 

Vicf-Chairman for Bronx Borough . Charles F. May 

Skc <ktary . . . . . E. H. Huft 



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